{"id":7636,"date":"2023-12-11T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7636"},"modified":"2023-12-11T16:04:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:04:01","slug":"speaker-robin-vos-says-university-of-wisconsin-dei-deal-not-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=7636","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Robin Vos Says University of Wisconsin DEI Deal Not Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/university-of-wisconsin-dei-2\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/university-of-wisconsin-dei-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/MixCollage-11-Dec-2023-09-44-AM-3499.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"University of Wisconsin DEI\" title=\"University of Wisconsin DEI\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says the deal to swap DEI jobs for pay raises at the University of Wisconsin is still on the table, but he also says it\u2019s not changing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Robin Vos told News Talk 1130\u2019s Jay Weber on Monday morning he\u2019s willing to give UW regents time to reconsider, but he\u2019s not going to soften his stance on ending diversity, equity and inclusion spending on UW campuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deal was negotiated in good faith,\u201d Vos said. \u201cWe are not changing one thing in this deal. We are not going backwards. If anything, I\u2019d prefer to go forward. But, you know, a deal is a deal, and you have to keep your word. So, it\u2019s going to last for a little while. But this is not forever.<\/p>\n<p>Vos didn\u2019t say how long he\u2019s planning to leave the deal on the table, but he suggested regents could reconsider and vote again after the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>UW regents on Saturday voted 9-8 against the deal that Vos agreed to with UW President Jay Rothman.<\/p>\n<p>Some regents felt the agreement \u201csold out\u201d students and faculty of color.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats spent the weekend cheering on the regents and demanding Vos soften his stance.<\/p>\n<p>The top Democrat in the Wisconsin Assembly, Rep. Greta Nuebaur, D-Racine, said Vos needs to give up and authorize the UW pay raises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn important reminder that the GOP can schedule a vote to release UW employees\u2019 pay raises AT ANY TIME. This is completely within their power,\u201d Neubauer said on social media. The GOP is cynically withholding raises and funds for critical university projects as leverage and we can\u2019t let them get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alex Joers, D-Middleton, took it a step further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Speaker and legislative Republicans now have the opportunity to do the right thing for WI. Release already approved pay raises, allow buildings to move forward, fund our universities, and drop their culture wars on DE&amp;I,\u201d Joers tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Vos said Democratic lawmakers must not know him very well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is zero chance. I will do everything in my power to make sure that we either enforce this deal, or we wait until the next budget to talk about it again,\u201d Vos said. \u201cWe are not going to give the raises, we are not going to approve these new building programs, we are not going to approve the new money for the university unless they, at least, pass this deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vos says the regents have a meeting scheduled for early January and said he will give them time to reconsider. But Vos said the deal \u201cwill not last forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/university-of-wisconsin-dei-2\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 The top Republican in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":7638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7639,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7636\/revisions\/7639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}